Apollo 15 and the Truth of Hadley Rille

Report: #0039

Apollo 15, on July 31, 1971, took a stroll to our Moon and landed on a landscape pre-selected for its beauty, for its picturesque setting.

 

Isn't that a charming, romantic argument? NASA, 38 years ago, had the money and serenity to wander the allure of a place out there on the Moon. We have plenty of beautiful spots right here on Earth. With a horse, you can reach stunning rural areas. With a bike, you can enjoy moderately rugged paths, and walking lets you even climb mountains. 

No, the goal was the Moon. But why don't they venture farther now? Isn't it as enchanting as before? Did they find too much dust?

Ironically, I'm just repeating the written description and explanation of why they landed precisely there—at the foot of some mountains, where a long, deep trench known as Hadley Rille passes by.

It does have exotic beauty. But NASA doesn't make space trips for such reasons. We don't know why they conducted so many flights, nor why they suddenly stopped. It had become routine; there were no major complications in the later missions.

NASA didn't lack money then—and doesn't now. 

How did NASA choose a landing site? Surely, it had to be flat, without many rocks or drops in the terrain. Among the countless craters, there always seems to be enough space for a safe landing. No mountains, no rivers, no seas.

The decisions made are secret, just like the results of the trips.  Well, today I'll talk about one place in two versions. I'll show it in images and describe what I see. I won't repeat anything. I just see the same place from different angles.

Possibly, we'll find nothing abnormal. We'll see how easy it is to fool our eyes—and how, with a different interpretation or presentation of images, we see totally opposite things. You might tell me that's just happening to me, not to you. You could interpret an image from the Apollo 15 team more easily and accurately.

When I finish this report, I'll still have my doubts. If anyone wants to discuss it with me afterward—or among yourselves—there's space for comments.

Let's start.  Just recently—barely a year ago—SELENE, the Japanese JAXA satellite, captured images of the Apollo 15 landing site.

Once again, the trench—Hadley Rille—is clearly visible, running almost in a circle around a spot.

Near some mountains, passing through various craters without entering them. This trench is 80 km long and 300 meters deep. To study the origin of this unique lunar landscape, the best astronauts of the time traveled there.

They brought rocks from this place back to Earth. Its origin dates back to the beginnings of this orbiting body, wherever it was at that time. Because some say the Moon is older than Earth. So, our Moon is a wandering loner from some remote corner of our solar system, captured in its moment by Earth. It wasn't love; it was a abduction by our mother Earth so that, in a distant future, this Moon could serve us as a companion on nights of love.  I've often wondered why the sky is so dark in all these images. Until today, I don't know, but it always seems suspicious to me. The images look very similar in every mission. Could someone be darkening, changing the color, or directly inverting the images, presenting us with the negatives of the photos?

A mountain can become a crater, and a crater can turn into a mountain. That's what seems to have happened here, in that image of Hadley Rille. 

 

First, I'll show you this image, and parts of these images in false color, inverted—that is, the negative of an original image.

 

Only then do the depths of the trench become visible.

The shadow transforms into a lava river or a dry river that, billions of years ago (3.4 billion), had hot lava instead of water in its depths.

 

It's highly credible, and I don't doubt this confirmation. All celestial bodies were, at their beginning, a hot ball—almost like a paste or boiling soup. But what about my eyes? Why can't I recognize the depth of this trench in the original?

 

Something totally different appears to me. On the contrary, I no longer see depths but heights—constructions as if from concrete.

They look like entrances to underground stations. Gates well hidden, adapted to their surroundings. The shadows no longer match the stones and rocks.

 

The original doesn't reflect the official description but shows entrances to deep underground stations on the Moon. You'll tell me that doesn't exist.

 

Well, I understand: They're not entrances, not gates. But please, put a sign in front of each gate saying: "Entry is not prohibited; there simply is no entry."

In the inverted image—not the original—please put a sign: "Swimming prohibited, because it's hot lava running there, not water."  Is everything clear? It's not a concrete gate; it's a deep trench!  

As I said at the beginning, I'm more confused than before. I just know that NASA was in a hurry to arrive right there, near the entrance. Or was it not an entrance—and they didn't have an encounter down there with someone? 

Josef Bauer

Credit:NASA/APOLLO-15/AS15-87-11716HR